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Women of Wall mark 25 years of struggle
Kobi Nachshoni
Published: 04.11.13, 15:03
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1. Goyishe Yidden from America are responsible for this mess.
Yanky Pipchick ,   Baltimore   (11.04.13)
2. reform is bankrupt
david ,   new york   (11.04.13)
reform destroyed american jews - they are all intermarried and assimilated and couldnt care less about israel and judaism. the reform are dead in america and they know it, their only hope is to set themselves up in israel. what do they have to offer? - they dont believe in the torah and they stand for nothing. the only thing they can do is define themselves by what the orthodox can not do: namely woman rabbis and homosexual marriage and homosexual rabbis (of course, the latter doesnt sell well in israel now, so they keep that part low key). thanks to rich dying reform leftists in the US, they have many tens of millions of dollars to pour into israel. so far they have little to show for all their efforts and their money, but israelis are naive and media activists support them. i am afraid some people will fall for it.
3. Congrats and long life !
Big Mouth ,   On the face   (11.04.13)
4. YNet Probably won't post but...
ms ,   jeruaslem   (11.04.13)
any any one wanna join a new group i am starting...W.P.S.U. "Woman Peeing Standing Up" i feel that as a woman we should have the right to enter all male bathrooms and use the urine holes along said the men! i say lets end the chareidi discrimination against woman!
5. WOW show just how pathetic they are
zionist forever   (11.04.13)
They want numbers to mark their 25th anniversary so they get their supporters from the US to come over. This is a pathetic attempt to make their support look greater than it really is and their supporters in the US should have no say in what goes on in Israel, you want a voice in Israeli affairs then come live in Israel. The fact that they demand a say in the running of any future egalitarian section of the Kotel shows that they think the world revolves around them. They ( falsely ) claim the plaza is run by the haredi and they criticise it talking about how it should be open to everybody but they are also saying that they should be running the egalitarian section. We have a tiny little group of mainly American feminist reformers and they think the whole world revolves around them. Love them or hate them they should not be given support until they come down to earth and accept they are no more special than anybody else and they are not right and anybody who doesn't support them is wrong. WOW are radical seculars who think everybody should do things the way and they will fight to make sure they do get it all their own way same as the radical hared they want them to same as the radical haredi who want to impose their beliefs on others.
6. 25 years of Earthly Life. Their spiritual existence is
Miron ,   USA   (11.05.13)
eternal ( as long as Haaretz paid enough to print, and they are ain't cheap ).
7. Pressure from American Reform
Sherlock Holmes ,   London England   (11.07.13)
In America there are separate sites for Traditional and Reform Jewish services, and the Western Wall is no different. About 13 years back the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that WoW should use the third segment of the Wall, known as Robinson's Arch. WoW demanded maximum media coverage and therefore preferred to cause a monthly scene in the Women's area of the Western Wall PLaza. According to both Minhag HaMakom and Minhag Avosainu, women should not don tefillin or a man's tallis or lain from a Sefer Torah at the Western Wall Plaza. During the 1920's the Arabs repeatedly tore down the mechitza and claimed the Wall was for |Muslims only, and some posters have suggested there was no mechitza until 1967, based on a misunderstanding.
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